Sausau's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Tale Of Blue And Red]

Will you put my hands away ?

It's extremely cliché. You probably took the most used and re-used love clichés, replaced the humans factors with flowers, and created your movie religiously following the path traced by those clichés. That's not a joke, maybe you didn't even realize it yourself. Plus, the animation is made only with tweens. Even when the blue flower tries to unroot himself, you didn't bother to draw him in a perspective, you just shrank him.
The color schemes is not bad at all though. You are trying (or maybe you did, without willing to) touched the "sensible string" of most people here fond of lovey-dovey stories. But it's not original, at all. Sorry to say this that roughly.
Though, work went into this, and you deserve credits for that ! So I am giving a 5 which is not SO FUCKING bad. :D

spunky13 responds:

Hey man, I tweened about one thing, the rest is all fbf. It give's it more of a bounce and more easing.

[Sean and Justin]

It's up to me turn down the night blights

That's it. When I saw the title of this in blue on the flash portal, I thought it was at least worth it. I then watched the movie, and thought it was not. But I didn't care, because you guy s had fun and this is very important, but now it got frontpage and a tremendous score of 4.39, I feel like calming the blitz a bit.

As much as it I don't feel like writing a really long review, I'll go straight to the point. What is the most bothering is obviously the lone concept of the movie. You can't just sacrifice any research of humour upon the altar of randomness. Well-managed randomness is funny, but here, you just put irrelevant elements the most you can. You are not even following a story-line, just sketches, and when an artists falls into compiling skteches instead of making a true story, it doesn't get any better.

As most fresh animators, you think that because it's really random and nonsensical, most newgrounders will laugh their juvenile ass off, which is, unfortunately for humanity, true. At this point, it's not even your fault. As I said earlier, you guys looked like you had an awesome time making this. But you didn't fully wholely care for inventivity, or originality. You put elephantesque internet memes such as the shoop-da-whoops (seriously...who still uses this joke ?) seriously, by seriously I mean that it was not intended to have a counter-culture feeling to it, but just the use of the meme as a 1st degree joke. If you still follow me.

I could talk about the relatively cheap animations, but I don't really care about that, and I am already tired of typing. Anyway, keep going guys, you may become great in the future.

Have a good anytime-of-the-day

[The unholy tree of doom]

The Pariah, the parrot and the delusion

I thought to myself "her first flash movie worked really nice, but won't this one feel like some kind of rip-off ? Or an effortless second movie to reproduce the first formula who was a success ?"

But I was wrong, because this is actually better than the first movie, there is a apprehensible concept, with great realisation and morphing, and good music as always, The eternal problem is the pre-loader. And still the abstruse meaning.

If you succeed to involve this bunny into a bigger plan, then it would be absolutely grand.

[What Birthers Believe]

Are you ...also....frighteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I am not here to bring debate or argument as some racist/redneck/republican idiots did before me. Art needs to be judged out of political opinions, this is a problem that's been carried through millenia. Oh well.

First of all, I am very aware that by claiming "This is what birhters believe" you are not depicting accurate birthers' beliefs. You had to emphasize, hyperbole and other magnifying verbs for some people to find it funny. This is not bad, but this is close to propaganda. Obviously, birhters are wrong and (probably) idiots, but you missed the point by showing a manicheist, simplistic and oh-caricatural picture of the "planners" behind what birthers believe.

You didn't work much on the situation as well. Just a hut where people talk. This is too easy, too cheap. After that, you only relate on enormous "jokes" to feed the movie with humour, but I must admit you failed.The animation itself is not pleasant enough to appeal, the voice acting is the only good point, the voodoo "Hey" made me laugh, twice.

Now I'm gonna wash my armpits.

[Age of the Anteater]

September all over

Newgrounds needs more cartoons like this. Because they are funny. Because they are original. Because they don't really make any sense. Because classic mulsic is always good. Because hippos are blue and not yellow.

[Please Don't Mute Me!]

Real Ketchup

I couldn't stay through the whole movie. Sorry, this was, in my opinion, a real bore. Not much happens. You use and re-use the same animations, same ideas and same drawins, in one flash movie. I know it's part of the will to fit a sample-song like the one your friend did, but it doesn't work well here. Plus the song itself is not exciting. Nowhere close to be DJ Shadow or The Avalanches, with whom you can actually make pretty slick and sick movies. I must presume this is not all your fault after all, if the matter for a movie is already thin.
But some parts were nice to see !

[brazilian folklore collab]

From Sinking

O compositor recorda-a assim: «Admito que sempre me irritaram as grandes palavras, os gritos de vingança. Talvez se me visse frente a frente com a morte eu também gritasse assim; mas esta frase que encontrei era diferente, quase uma desculpa ou uma explicação por se ter metido nesta situação; procura consolo com palavras simples, mas significativas».

Mais tarde explica: «Na prisão, toda a parede estava coberta de inscrições que clamavam: 'Sou inocente', 'Assassinos', 'Executores', 'Libertai-me', 'Salvai-me', etc. Tudo era chavão e banal. Os adultos escreviam este tipo de mensagens, mas está aqui uma jovem de 18 anos, quase uma menina. Ela é diferente. Não desespera, não chora, não exige vingança. Não pensa em si mesma, se merece ou não este destino. Em troca, pensa na sua mãe, que é quem experimenta o verdadeiro desespero. Esta inscrição é algo extraordinário. E realmente fiquei fascinado»